Exploration & Travel 2023

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, viii, 447; viii, 588 pp., 2 portrait frontispieces, numerous wood-engraved plates, 2 maps (1 large folding), contemporary crimson morocco gilt extra, cream silk doublures, all edges gilt, a fine set.

First edition, 8vo, xxii, 596 pp., frontispiece and 230 plates after sketches by the author, 2 maps (1 folding), contemporary half calf gilt, red morocco label, occasional light spotting, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, xv, 440; vii, 428 pp., 2 aquatint frontispieces, errata slip, contemporary plum half calf gilt, spines with red morocco labels, marbled sides, light toning and spotting to a couple of pages, small marginal repair to page 230 vol. I, a very good copy.

First English Edition, 8vo, viii, 77 pp., original green cloth gilt, double gilt fillet borders to upper cover, extremities lightly worn, a very good example.

Five parts in 3 vols, 4to, xxxvi pp., (2) ll., 516 pp., 1 map, 38 plates; (4) ll., xvi pp., lxii pp., (1) l., 259 pp., (2) ll., pp. (261)-576 but numbered 596, (4) ll., pp. 577-578 but numbered 597-598, 2 maps, 3 tables, 10 plates; (5) ll., lxxxiv pp., 256 pp., 9 maps; viii pp., 240 pp., 16 pp., (3) ll., 2 maps, 6 plates, a total of 71 plates, maps, and tables, some folding (occasional tear to folds) green roan-backed marbled boards, a very good set.

First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol., large landscape folio (43.3 x 52.6 cm), additional stipple-engraved frontispiece 'taken from the pediment of the portico to the East-India-House' by James Godby after E. Orme, letter-press title, hand-coloured stipple-engraved group portrait of 'The Native Judges and Officers of the Court of the Recorder, Bombay'; engraved title (24 Views in Hindostan Drawn by William Orme from the Original Paintings by Mr. Daniell), 24 hand-coloured aquatint views by J.C. Stadler, H. Merke, J. B. Harraden and others after F. S. Ward, T. and W. Daniell and others; HUNTER (JAMES) Picturesque Scenery from the Kingdom of Mysore letter-press title, hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Tippoo Sultan, 40 hand-coloured aquatint views by H. Merke, J. C. Stadler, J. B. Harraden and others after Hunter, [watermarks 1801-1802], light off-setting, some spotting to first leaves and to some internal margins, contemporary red morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, a very handsome example.

First edition. 12mo, viii, 323 pp., contemporary speckled sheep, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments, morocco label, light wear, a very good copy.

First edition. 4to, x, 512pp., 7 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (3 of which show 2 subjects); 2 folding, including a panoramic plate of the Yam Custom, 2 maps (one folding), 1 plan, 1 engraved folding plate, 5 pages of engraved music (offsetting to text), title with contemporary ink signature 'J. M. Coad, Gloucester' to head and slightly creased (reinforced at inner edge), contents leaf remargined, light offsetting from plates, bookseller's ticket of J. Needham of Gloucester, contemporary half black calf, spine gilt, rubbed, a very good copy, plates clean and fresh.

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 576; 580 pp., 36 illustrations including 10 chromolithographs, original green pebble-grained cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover & spine vol. I, a fine set.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, xiv, 375; ix, 390 pp, 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, text illustrations, small marginal stain outside text to pages 330-335 vol i, fine blue polished half calf gilt, spine in six compartments, morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, marbled sides and edges, a very good example.